Tonight's Poet Corner: Introspection
Whew! It has been quite a week. Lot of changes, all of them expected and planned out. Now it's just a matter of moving forward. Thursday, August 3rd was my last official day working at Fusion Academy Marin. I was an English and Social Studies teacher there for over two years, mentoring several dozen students from different backgrounds with different needs. I cultivated an enormous amount of knowledge in regards to how I create a lesson, how I scaffold a skill, and how I build a rapport with the individual I'm trying to teach. During those years, I witnessed tremendous growth in most of my students, and I am so proud of how far they have come. Clearly, I've done something right for at least some of them - I've gotten lots of chocolate-based gifts and even Giants tickets out of it! Both the students and the staff at Fusion made it extremely difficult for me to leave. Everyone there knew how to create an environment and school culture that was overwhelmingly positive a